1. Kitengela/Athi River, Kenya - AFRICA

This hazardous waste incinerator which handles agro-chemicals, medical wastes and hazardous industrial chemicals is located in a residential area. Residues from the incinerator are tipped close to the site without any containment with a high risk of environmental contamination. Levels of POPs were measured in the ambient air during the African POPs monitoring project but, like similar wastes in Africa there is no publically available data on the levels in the residues.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Waste Incineration



Data about POPs levels in different environment compartments:

  Air



POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants. This is a group of chemicals that are very toxic to people and the environment:
  Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (dioxins)
  Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  Hexachlorobenzene